Improvement in devices for emptying stoves



B. GDNNELLY.

Devices for Emptying St0 v es.

Patented March4,18 73.

u H a UNITED STATES PATENT OEFIoE.

BERNARD OONNELLY, OEWILLIAMsBURG, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR EMPTYING STOVESt Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. 136,418, dated March 4, 187:

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERNARD (JoNNELLY, of Williamsburg, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Device for Emptying Stoves, of which the following is aspecification:

Figure 1 is a top view of the bottom of a stove to which my improvementhas been applied. Fig. 2 is a detail vertical section of the same takenthrough the line w m, Fig, 1. Fig. 3 is a detail vertical section of thesame taken through the line y y, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved device by the useof which the ashes and cinders may be discharged from the body of thestove and removed without raising a dust to float through the room andsettle upon the various articles within it. The inventionconsists in theimprovement of devices for emptying ashes and cinders from stoves, ashereinafter described and pointed out inthe claim.

A represents the bottom of the stove, upon which rests and to which issecured the body of said stove. In the middle part of the bot tom A isformed a recess, a to receive the ashes from the grate. The stove-bottomA is east without any bottom to the recess a. Upon the outer surface ofthe sides of the recess a are cast flanges a B is a slide, the sideedgesof which are turned upward to overlap the outer surfaces of theside walls of the recess a and are so formed as to fit and slide out andin upon the flanges a The rear end of the plate B when pushed fully inenters a recess or'groove in a flange, a, cast upon the lower edge ofthe rear-end wall of the recess a. The forward end of the slide B isturned upward, and is so formed as to fit upon a flange, a, cast uponthe outer surface of the forward-end wall of the recess a. To theforward end of the slide B is attached a handle, by means of which itmay be drawn out and pushed in conveniently. G are downwardly-projectingflanges, formed upon the bottom A at a little distance from the. sideand rear-end walls of the recess a, said flanges havinginwardly-projecting shoulders formed upon their lower edges. D is a-pan,the sides and rear end of which have their upper edges bent outward tofit and rest upon the shoulders of the flanges G. The forward end ofthe-pan D projects upward along the outer surface of the front-end wallof the recess a, and is slotted to allow the slide B to move out and inthrough it. The forward end of the pan D has a handle attached to it,for convenience in withdrawing the said pan to empty it.

With this construction, when the stove is to be emptied, the slide B isdrawn out, and the grate is dumped, the ashes and cinders falling intothe pan D. The slide 13 is then pushed in, closing the bottom of thestove. The pan D may then be detached and emptied whenever desired orconvenient, so that the stove may be emptied and the ashes and cindersremoved without allowing a particle of dust to escape into the room.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Pat ent- A stove having a recessed bottom, with the flanges aa a, combined with the handled edge-lapped slide 13, and the slottedhandled pan D, resting upon the shoulders of flanges (l, as and for thepurpose described.

BERNARD CONNELLY.

Witnesses: V

(l. SEDGWIoK, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

